noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大黒天

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大黒天

noun:

• Okuninushi; deity of magic and medicine later viewed as equivalent to Daikokuten and celebrated at Izumo Grand Shrine ➜ 大国主命【おおくにぬしのみこと】

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as a Shinto offering) - poetic name - archaism ➜ 玉串

noun:

• folk song from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture (used as a Bon Festival dance song)

noun:

• old-fashioned doughnut; doughnut made with cake batter (as opposed to yeast-based dough) - Food term - From English "fashion donuts"

noun:

• soft, downy hair (i.e. such as on one's cheek); peach fuzz; fluff; pappus
• lanugo

~の noun:

• lanuginous; pappose; pappous

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• pill made from various animal ingredients (incl. musk, toad venom, cow bezoars, etc.) used as a cardiac stimulant in Chinese medicine

noun:

• komi; extra points given to the white player as compensation for playing second (in go)

noun:

• arranging a group of people so as to form a character or spell out a message

adjectival noun / noun:

• standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get (e.g. the gist of something); to understand
• to turn out as one thought ➜ 我が意を得たり

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks

noun:

• iron (Fe)

~の noun / noun:

• strong and hard (as iron)

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• railway - abbreviation ➜ 鉄道

noun / prefix noun:

• railway enthusiast - colloquialism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to smoke (a cigarette)
• to behave as ... ➜ 先輩風を吹かす
• to accelerate; to rev up ➜ エンジンを吹かす

noun / ~する noun:

• spin (as in 'take a car for a spin'); run

noun:

• lining a kimono with the same material as the kimono itself

expression / adverb:

• at the present time; as of now; at this time

~の noun / adverb:

• two by two; by twos; as a couple

noun:

• sick house (as in "sick house syndrome")

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child

expression:

• do not mind doing; gladly do; can do; might as well do

expression / ~の noun:

• as a child; when one was a child; childhood

noun:

• person given as a reference; witness
• potential suspect; person of interest
• witness